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June 10, 1930. w. o. YANcEY FIGURE DOLL Filed Jan. 27, 1930ZSheets-Sheet .1

June 10, 1930. w. o. .YANCEY 1,762,374

A FIGURE DOLL Filed Jan. 27, 19:50 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented June 10,1930 WILLIAM 0. YANGEY, OIE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS FIGURE DQLL Applicationfiled January 27, 1930. Serial No. 423,633.

This invention relates to improvements in dolls and more particularly todolls heads having a sectional rotative face portion capa ble of beingadjusted to reproduce different facial expressions or contortions.

The invention is applicable to all kinds of dolls or figures of persons,animals, or birds, whether they be life-like or comic, and has for itsobject the provision of a novel toy calculated to afford amusement toboth old and young.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1. is a general view of the figureof a comic policeman as illustrative of the invention.

Figure 2, a view in side elevation of the head with the facial segmentsremoved.

Figure 3 is a view of the head in vertical section through the head withparts assembled.

Figures dand 5 are views in side elevation of the central facialsegments in different positions.

Figure 6 and 7 are views of the outer facial segments, and

Figures 8 and 9 are views in front elevation of the rotative segmentsshowing the manner in which the facial expression can be changed.

The novel feature of the invention being confined to the head, theformation of the body of the figure is not of importance. As apreferable construction, however, the head is pivoted to the body sothat it can be turned from side to side. Thus, as shown in Figure 2, thebody 1 of the figure without the outer garments may be of wood andhaving a neck portion 1 with a fiat top surface upon which the head ispivotally mounted.

The head is made up of a relatively stationary shell or casing 2,substantially semispherical in shape and forming the top, back andsides, that is, the hair-bearing portions of the head, leaving a largeopen space in front for the facial area extending from the top of theforehead to the neck and from ear to ear. The shell 2 may be made in anysuitable manner or material, as for instance a thin metal shell pressedor moulded to the contour of the skull and painted to simulate the hair.At the base of the shell is an integral fiat plate 2 which bears on thetop of the body and pivotally connected therewith as by a pin and socketconnection. The cars 3, 3 may be made integral with the shell be ingpressed from the metal in their proper location along the forward edgesof the shell. The face of the head, or the several facial. features indifferent states of repose, consists of a globe or spherical body 4r-otative about a horizontal axis passing through the shell 2 in regionof the ears and divided symmetrically into three independently rotatablesegments, as by parallel planes intersecting the sphere at right anglesto its axis. More specifically, the parallel planes of intersection arelocated on opposite sides of what would be the equator of the sphere,thus forming a central segment 4t, the surface of which includes theportion of the face between the eyes and occupied by the nose and mouthand chin, and two outer segments 49,4" somewhat less than semi-sphericalin shape, their surfaces including the eyes, cheeks and adjacentportions of the face. The segmented sphere 4; may be made of anysuitable material, either hollow or solid, and with the facial featurespainted on the surface or impressed in relief and painted. For thepurpose of illustration, however, thesegments are shown as made of solidwood, with the facial fea tures painted thereon.

As shown in Figures 4 and 5, the central segment P is dividedcircumferentially into quadrants, each bearing the representation of anose, mouth and chin of a different contour in a state of repose.Elmilarlythe surface of the outer segment-s 4", l aredivided intoquadrants, each depicting the eyes, cheeks, eye-brows of theirrespective sides of the face in different states of repose.

The face-forming sphere 4 is mounted on a pin 5 passing through itsaxis, the ends of the pin being fixed at the sides of the head casing 2approximately at the center of the ears 3, 3 which, as shown in Figure3, projectfrom the sides of the head and lie close to the ends of theouter facial segments 49, e which are preferably flattened somewhat attheir poles. In order to conceal the area of the sphere not exposed inthe facial area, the

I the segments, the different groups of facial elements depicted thereonare brought into register With each other to form a complete face. Manycombinations are manifestly possible and many different faces, varyinggreatly in expression or facial contortion, may be produced on the faceof the figure. In the present disclosure the combinations are confinedto changes in expression in the same face, but it is also possible tomake complete changes in color or racial characteristics as Well asexpression.

I claim as my invention:

1. A dolls head comprising a relatively stationary shell, a sphericalmember rotative in said shell and having a portion of its surfaceforming the facial area of said head, said spherical body being dividedsymmetrically into a plurality of segments each bearing groups of facialfeatures at intervals about its circumference and adapted to be broughtinto register With one another within the facial area.

2. A dolls head comprising a relatively stationary hollow shell formingthe hairbearing areas of the head, and having a front openingcorresponding to the facial area; a rotative sphere mounted in the frameand having 'a predetermined portion of its surface exposed in the facialopening of said shell, said sphere being divided symmetrical ly into aplurality of independently rotative segments each bearing groups offacial features in different states of repose adapted to be variouslycombined in registering relation Within the facial area to form faces ofdifiering expression or contortion.

3. A dolls head comprising a hollow casing simulating the hair-bearingportion of the head and the ears and having an opening corresponding tothe facial area thereof, a sphere mounted in said casing and rotativeabout a horizontal axis passing transversely through the head in theregion of the ears, said sphere being divided symmetrically into aplurality of segments, the surface of each segment being dividedcircumferentially into sectors each bearing the groups of a facialfeature in different states of repose, said spherical segments beingrotative independently of each other to bring different groups of facialfeatures into register Within the facial opening of said casing.

4. A dolls head comprising a hollow casing simulating the hair-bearingportion of the head and ears and having an opening corresponding to thefacial area thereof, a sphere mounted in said casing and rotative upon ahorizontal axle mounted transversely of said casingin the region of theears, said sphere being divided symmetrically into a central and outersegment as by parallel planes perpendicular to said axis, the surfacesof said segments bearing groups of facial features in different statesof repose and spaced apart circumferentially at equal intervals, saidspherical segments being rotative independently of each other to bringdifferent groups of facial segments into register Within the facialopening of said casing.

Signed at Chicago, Ill, this 2&th day of January, 1930.

\VILLIAM O. YANCEY.

